FORTUNATELY for the Cornell Era, the Advocate and Crimson appear on alternate Fridays, else the Era would lose the chance of exhibiting its want of manliness and manners more than once a fortnight.

THE Yale Lit for April is far superior to our other exchanges, and seems to be an interesting and highly creditable publication. Our high opinion of its merits, however, may be owing to our having taken immediately before it a large dose of other college papers. The prize oration on Carlyle is certainly original and thoughtful, though we cannot commend its style. The editors of the Lit. should be careful about quotations. Horace and Coleridge both suffer in this number.

WE owe an apology to the Courant. Next time it appears to make a blunder, we shall understand that it is "roughing" the Record. We had no intentions of interfering in a family quarrel, - that is, a family joke. We hope the Courant's ungallant remarks on "wanton exhibitions of feminine levity and frivolity" (i. e. young ladies' talking in the Library) are also a joke but they sound rather too serious to be quite polite.

THE Williams Athenoeum has a new board of editors, who set forth a very sensible credo on the objects of a college journal. They believe that "literary articles" should "occupy only a subordinate place." Unfortunately we find in the same issue an oration four and a half columns long on the "Historical Awakening Culminating in the Reformation." The Athenoeum should take as its motto, "Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor." We must acknowledge, however, that the oration is worth publishing.

REFERRING to the Princeton-Harvard foot-ball game, the Princetonian says: "Owing to some misunderstanding on the part of the Harvard Foot-ball Directors, no one called for us, and we were consequently forced to find our own way out to Cambridge. But this apparent neglect was purely an oversight, as the after-treatment of our hosts most conclusively proved. Once in the company of these gentlemen, the time passed very quickly."

"SENIORS and Fourth-Years decided to help plaster the Second Church with ice-cream last Monday evening, by invitation of Mrs. Prof. White. The combined attractions of a Sociable, ice-cream, and staying out till nine o'clock, are enough to make any class benevolent. Of course the arrangement proved a success in all directions,"- Oberlin Review.

To plaster a church with ice-cream is indeed a novel style of decoration. Was it done inside or out? We presume outside, and that internal application was reserved for the "Seniors and Fourth-Years" themselves. We are glad to hear that the experiment of sitting up till nine o'clock after eating ice-cream was a success.

WE hope that the new editors of the Era will heed the warning contained in the title to the valedictory of the outgoing board, - "Morituri Salutamus."

LAMENTING the fact that the cities of Montpelier and St. Albans send so few students to college, the Montpelierian says: "We venture to say that the number could be counted on the fingers of one's hands, and then there would be enough left so he could eat in an emergency." If the Niagara Index should see this statement, it would try to prove that higher education tends to cannibalism as well as suicide. The Montpelierian gives the following charming picture: "Our campus, out of study hours, is covered with base-ball players and croquet matches, and our reverend Professors even join in the exercise."